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  2. Category:Renaissance writers - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance literature writers (c.14th−16th centuries) — active during the Renaissance period in Europe. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 ...

  3. Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]

  4. French Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    The 16th century in France was a remarkable period of literary creation (the language of this period is called Middle French).The use of the printing press (aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon), the development of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery (through the wars in ...

  5. List of Renaissance figures - Wikipedia

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    3 Writers. 4 Philosophers. 5 Composers. 6 Dancing masters. 7 Explorers and navigators. 8 Humanists. ... This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance.

  6. Giovanni Boccaccio - Wikipedia

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    16th-century portrait of Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: / b ə ˈ k æ tʃ i oʊ / bə-KATCH-ee-oh, US: / b oʊ ˈ k ɑː tʃ (i) oʊ, b ə ˈ-/ boh-KAH-ch(ee)oh, bə-; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 [1] – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

  7. List of historians - Wikipedia

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    Historians of the Italian Renaissance listed under "Renaissance" Piers Langtoft (died c. 1307) Jean de Joinville (1224–1319) Giovanni Villani (1276–1348), Italian chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica; John of Küküllő (1320–1393) John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349), Irish historian; Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372), Irish ...

  8. Petrarch - Wikipedia

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    Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzo. Francis Petrarch (/ ˈ p ɛ t r ɑːr k, ˈ p iː t-/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the ...

  9. François Rabelais - Wikipedia

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    François Rabelais (UK: / ˈ r æ b ə l eɪ / RAB-ə-lay, US: / ˌ r æ b ə ˈ l eɪ /-⁠ LAY; [2] [3] French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. [4]